President Trump dines with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Friday night, one evening before their bizarre public meeting about North Korea. (Susan Walsh/AP)

President Trump's weekend get-together with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe included a bizarre scene Saturday night, following news of North Korea's ballistic missile test, that saw the two world leaders scramble to come up with an official response at a public dinner table at the commander-in-chief's Mar-a-Lago resort.

The two men, who had spent most of the day golfing, were having dinner at an open-air public table at Trump's Mar-A-Lago estate in southern Florida when news of the launch broke, prompting them to cobble together a statement as aides brought documents to them and provided the light to read them with their personal cell phones, CNN reported.

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Trump received news of the strike on his cell phone while seated at the table, as dinner music played in the background, CNN reported, and as waiters took away plates of wedge salads and brought in the main course.

"He never should have had such a sensitive discussion in such a public place," Sen. Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) said Monday.

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Early Monday evening, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer pushed back on the report by CNN and others. He said Trump had been briefed in a "secure room" before the dinner, and despite all appearances to the contrary, the pair were just discussing logistics for their press briefing and no classified material was discussed publicly.

But according to CNN, numerous guests of the Florida club, in plain sight and earshot of Trump and Abe, began huddling near the table as the two leaders and other government officials, including National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and chief strategist Steve Bannon, got to work.

Aides held up their cell phones to provide lighting in the dimly-lit dining room — a potential breach of national security protocol due to the fact that personal cell phones could easily be hacked — so the leaders could see the documents.

Some guests continued to eat their meals amid the chaos, while others captured the unusual scene on their own cell phone cameras and posted the images to social media.

"HOLY MOLY !! It was fascinating to watch the flurry of activity at dinner when the news came that North Korea had launched a missile in the direction of Japan," a Facebook user named Richard DeAgazio wrote Sunday along with pictures of Abe and Trump.

"The Prime Minister Abe of Japan huddles with his staff and the President is on the phone with Washington DC. the two world leaders then conferred and then went into another room for hastily arranged press conference. Wow.....the center of the action!!!" he added.

DeAgazio told The Washington Post in an interview Monday that he "saw things changing" after Trump took the initial call.

"The prime minister's staff sort of surrounded him, and they had a little pow-wow," he said.

"There wasn't any panicked look. Most of the people didn't even realize what was happening," DeAgazio told The Post.

In another post Sunday, DeAgazio wrote about a man named "Rick," who he claimed was the security official who carries the emergency briefcase that the President uses to authorize a nuclear strike.

"This is Rick...He carries the 'football' The nuclear football (also known as the atomic football, the President's emergency satchel, the Presidential Emergency Satchel, the button, the black box, or just the football) is a briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear attack while away from fixed command centers, such as the White House Situation Room," DeAgazio wrote. "It functions as a mobile hub in the strategic defense system of the United States. It is held by an aide-de-camp."

DeAgazio has since deleted his Facebook account.

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As the public crisis meeting proceeded, First Lady Melania Trump and Abe's wife continued chatting with each other, through an interpreter, at the table, CNN reported.

DeAgazio said he saw the man who follows Trump around with the briefcase containing the information on how to launch a nuclear strike. (Facebook)

Moments later, Trump, Abe, and their aides moved from the dinner table toward a more private area inside a nearby ballroom.

About 10 minutes later, around 10:30 p.m., they held a joint press conference, where Abe called the missile launch "absolutely intolerable," and where Trump said that "the United States of America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100%."

But following the statement, Trump appeared to disregard the gravity of the situation, choosing to crash a wedding reception occurring in the Mar-a-Lago Grand Ballroom.

At the party, Trump was given a microphone and spoke fondly of the newly married couple.

"I saw them out on the lawn today," Trump said of the bride and groom in a video obtained by New York Magazine. "I said to the Prime Minister of Japan, I said, 'C'mon Shinzo, let's go over and say hello.'"

"They've been members of this club for a long time," Trump said of the pair, identified by New York Magazine as Carl Henry Lindner IV, 33, and Vanessa Jane Falk, 36. "They've paid me a fortune."

Lindner's father reportedly donated at least $100,000 to two Trump-affiliated Super PACs, according to the publication.

North Korea's ballistic missile test represented the first serious international incident of Trump's presidency.

The missiles were fired off from the northwestern city of Kusong just before 8 a.m. and flew about 300 miles toward the Sea of Japan, according to U.S. and South Korean officials, before falling into the sea.

State-run news agency KCNA said North Korean leader Kim-Jong Un personally supervised the test launch of the Pukguksong-2 — a new weapon described as a medium-to-long-range ballistic missile able to carry a nuclear warhead.

"Obviously, North Korea is a very big problem and we will deal with it very strongly," he said.

Members of Trump's high-priced club might get another show this weekend. The Palm Beach Post reported Monday that Trump will return to Mar-a-Lago for Presidents' Day weekend, citing Federal Aviation Administration records.

The trip would mark Trump's third consecutive weekend retreat to his "Winter White House."